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ravenousness|ˈræv(ə)nəsnɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality or fact of being ravenous; rapacity, voracity.
1570Golding Justin xxxviii. 157 b, The greedy rauenousnesse of their Proconsulles. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xxiv. 147 The rauenousnes and greedie feeding of this beast. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxvii. (1674) 101 To defend their own Estates from the ravenousness of these Harpies. a1715Burnet Own Time ii. (1724) I. 224 [The treasure] was by the unpatient ravenousness of the English lost. 1829J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Nat. 304 There are natural causes which render these apparent asylums the field of ravenousness and death. |